Howard Graves Meredith (1856-1934)

Born at Port Hope, he was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, and Hellmuth College, London. He became vice-president of the New York Coal Company and a director of the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway. His private carriage was attached to the rear of an express train when it crashed in thick fog. His in-laws, Henry Newland and Martha Joy, who were travelling with him, were both killed in the accident. Mr Meredith kept a house at 650 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, from where his sister-in-law, Mary Newland, was married in 1908 to Count Menno von Limburg-Stirum.